[ROOT] binomial errors in TH1F

From: Mikhail Jabitski (Zhabitsky) (zhabitsk@nusun.jinr.ru)
Date: Thu Oct 19 2000 - 09:00:40 MEST


	Hello ROOTers!

I have a histogram which is the ratio of two correlated histograms.
I used TH1F::Divide(TH1 *h1, TH1 *h2, Double_t c1, Double_t c2, Option_t 
*option); with option="B" to get the resulting distribution with binomial
errors. But it seems that calculated errors are not binomial.
Example below illustrates this problem.
Am I doing something wrong?

	Mikhail

PS
 I use 
  *   Version   2.25/03 15 September 2000   *
CINT/ROOT C/C++ Interpreter version 5.14.50, Sep 2 2000


{
   gROOT->Reset();
   c1 = new TCanvas("c1","The FillRandom example",200,10,700,900);

   gaus1 = new TFormula("gaus1","gaus");
   gaus1->SetParameters(1000,10,1);

   h1f = new TH1F("h1f","Test random numbers",200,0,20);
   h1f->FillRandom("gaus1",10000);

   TH1F *bindistr = new TH1F("binomial","Test binomial",200,0,20);
   bindistr->Divide(h1f,h1f,1.0,2.0,"B");

/*  
   Int_t nbinsx = h1f->GetNbinsX();
   Double_t w, n2;
   for (Int_t binx=0; binx<=nbinsx+1; binx++)
   {
    w = bindistr->GetBinContent(binx);
    n2 = h1f->GetBinContent(binx);
    if (n2)
     bindistr->SetBinError(binx,sqrt(w*(1-w)/n2));
    else
     bindistr ->SetBinError(binx,0.0);  
   };
*/
   
   bindistr->Draw("E");
   c1->Update();
}






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